Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Versioning the dependency on octave for the OF packages
* Thomas Weber <tweber@debian.org> [2012-03-09 22:32]:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 09:32:58PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > It would also be useful to exploit the dependency versioning between
> > Forge packages, for similar reasons.
>
> This might make it difficult to upload new versions of packages. Yes,
> textread is missing in the io package - do we really want to prevent an
> update of octave-io due to this?
Well, as I wrote in my previous message, octave-pkg-helper do this
currently. In corner cases, nothing prevents the maintainer to add an
extra dependency, besides the usual ${octave:Depends}.
Anyway, what is the problem with io & textread?
Rafael
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